Short Vaporous Poems

TANKA
Contrails streak the sky.
Vaporous cotton
Left by silver dots in a hurry.
My mind takes flight, but
My feet are grounded....

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wispy dawn rising
ethereal flute of light
lances the vaporous shroud

spiderweb glistens
an intricately woven
and intangible beauty...

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Mornings are the BEST
a fresh start
who says the universe is cruel?

Yesterday’s mistakes
gone like vaporous nothings..
well, the small ones anyway....

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I scream in silence
and dream in wails
I state my case in words
that faintly weep
They wade discoloured 
in my
vaporous soul,
Untouched my rain
thus gently falls...

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Standing
under
an unjust moon
unable
   to move
from this
lurking mood
   of alone

no shadow
   cast by
this vaporous
form
reflecting nothing
   nothing
but empty
heart drained and
dust
   dry...

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TRANSCRIPTIONS
once spellbound
 glowing
  hoveringin
mistiness
limpid
  himid
    bliss
of wonder
a
  vaporous
vision
 incandescent
teeming
  transparent
fluttering
  scattering
sinuoud
   viscosity
in
exploding
shock waves...

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Light streams manipulate vaporous violin strings
meandering about open casements;
flantando melodies float, dream bridged sighs.
At table, coffee steam rises, knitting the brume,
hooding her sorrow pricked eyes.

Copyright, November 15, 2017
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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Aberrant
Blind Bushs'
Crude callous
Debauched democracy,
Elevating
Fabricated facts
Garnering grizzly
Hell
In Iraq.
Jaundiced justified
Killing
Myriad
Numbers
Of other
People,
Quickly
Reassuring
Safety
To those
United ultras'
Vaporous vapid
World with
Xyloid
Yuppie
Zombies....

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Toxic haze curling thickly
In your lungs, my name
Exhaled, dripping in smoke.
An escape of breath, another drag.
Your lips on mine, regret,
The flavor of the night.
Smokey and bitter
And filling my lungs.
On the verge of emotion,
You pull away, eyes glazed,
My soul following, vaporous,
Thin and second hand....

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Viscid,
      Black,
           Highly spoonable.

Floating,
        Submerged,
                 Gellid pieces.

Flotsam,
       Jetsam,
             Relics of life?

Putrescent,
          Vaporous,
                  Motifs of death.

Ubiquitous,
          Ignored,
                 Feast for vultures....

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Her sensual walk can sway
with a subtle movements art
Her vision led me astray
heated and blistered my heart
Burning lips from hunger's abyss
melts away love's vaporous form
And expels each breathless kiss
upon trembling skin so warm
Tomorrow is a cold disguise
worn by my lonely eyes


1/13/18 contest 10 Lines 5 Words Rhyme II...

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Verdant slopes from afar~
Velvety plains enclave
Versatile soil beneath
Vaporous calm crater
Violent when active
Venomous lava flows
Vexing living things near.




7 May 2021

Syllables checked in How Many Syllables.com ( 6 per line)

For "Pleiades - V Poetry Contest"
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
2nd place

A Brian Strand 1095 Poetry Contest...

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A student battling with Asthma
And vaporous Miasma
Wouldn't he pack up Charisma?
Soon, confront the sure dilemma
Of suspending his Diploma 
Or sniffing Hard Work's aroma...

Espy I do Anathema,
Its picture clearest cinema:
A man from a great deal barred
And a future that might be marred...

Worse than malfunctional plasma 
Bad Asthma plus Bad Miasma!...

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It was no propitious day it seemed
The misty rain overlong prevailed
A feeble sun, time to time had gleamed
Through vaporous  clouds on landscape veiled
I made my farewells to friends no more
And took to the streets now dark and damp
My life uncertain no pathway sure
I lingered under a dim street lamp
That instant saw it would all be right

24 September 2019...

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Majesty
is how the river pours
free from gravity the water falls

sitting still
where carved rocks are quiet
listening to the bubbling roars

to be cleansed
by a vaporous mist
that lays upon the soul in silence

wonder stirs
beneath vibrant sky's kiss
where peaceful dreams and I come to merge


contest  Some form of Crystalline
Frederic Parker
10/26/14...

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in between the petals where the sweetness lays
moisture forms like condensation on glass from humidity
joy lingers by the candles glow, long into the night
with lunar beams come the dream--half reality, half fantasy
I wake at dawn, stretch and yawn, languid in your arms
knowing that when you slip into this vaporous mist
I'll catch you when you fall
I'll catch you when you fall...

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Wherefrom poetry shades recall,
and the other side of yesterday
is but a dreamt hallucination,
can't see the foliage from trees'
darkly forested boundaries,
insofar as frivolous moonbeams 
agitate sun's glorified imagism 
'midst hues of baubled madness
& vaporous sentiments are replete
within day-trippers' remote motives,
shadowing delusional chicanery
of rosé-tinted Jedi mind tricks...

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Lost in a dark vaporous pit
Suffocating in the fumes of you
After you went up in flame
I tried to extinguish you for good
Still you hang around 
Like a broken parachute
Trapped on a tree limb
What does it matter
We won't be taking off 
Or crash-landing ever again
In the vast and vacuous
Space which is your soul
I have been too many times
I'm climbing out now
I think I've seen the light...

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Flight of the vaporous clouds,
moving at speeds unfathomable—
like these thoughts...
entangled in dead branches
longing to be free—lusting after
the deep blue of the night sky—
trying—flying.

I flee not from my sorrows,
I flee not from you,
my love...
I fly in these vapors,
entranced by change.

I believe our souls caress
Transformations
in every fullness and waning
of the resilient night....

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One hundred year’s young.
The
grand old lady
lying still
in the blackness
of time.

Her great hull
standing silent
weeping for
its precious
cargo.

Shivering vaporous forms
of first class and steerage.
Stroll hand in hand
together to the
surging currents
of the Atlantic.

A vast wardrobe
of scattered luggage,
across the sandy floor.
Small ghostly forms
play chasey among
the tattered decks....

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Lies masqueraded as truth,
Unscrupulous, and uncouth,
Deceit in love,
Deceit of money,
Deceit with trust,
Deceit with facts,
Vaporous semi-truths,
Held as solid gospel,
The twists of truths,
Serving for one a selfish use
But for the victim of these falsehoods,
A form of deep abuse,

Borrow things, no intent to return,
Cheating others, let them burn!
How low can one go?
For even but a dime,
Will puzzle me,
Til the end of time....

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The Bible 2
Written: by Miracle Man
September 20, 2020

While Many own it, too many seldom read it,
It lays gathering dust, nondescript, on some shelf.
We see a fallow field, but we fail to seed it,
one’s time is spent trying to amusing oneself

This book was given as a road map for all,
to guide us daily through our vaporous life.
leaving it on a shelf will lead to our downfall,
and it determines where we’ll spend our afterlife.
READ IT!
...

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We're really showing our age,
As we turn another page,
Life in the Magic Faraway Tree,
Gossamer floating fairy,
Translucent veil of Silky,
Ethereal and delicate,
Gauzy and so intricate,
Sheer and diaphanous,
Cobweb wings  so vaporous,
Someone kind to take her hand,
Smiling face of Saucepan Man,
Now I'm old, I've got a job,
I've turned into Dame Washalot, 
Our imaginary friends have faded away......
Yes, we're all showing our age,
Let's turn another magical page....

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Helpless is each one who breaks the life barrier,
Umbrellaed beneath earth's vaporous dome,
Marked with the blemishes of a blighted race.
Angels look down upon them, try to guard their faltering ways.
Naked they are born and naked they depart;
In between the poles an unknown span of days
To letter their life story, a tale woven of variegated yarns,
Yearners, always, for fulfilling Light.

Copyright, November 15, 2017...

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Vaporous hazy fog,
listless light,
permeated by the sound
of early birds.

Gulls cawing,
delivery trucks thumping,
competing as they 
emit their harsh cries.

Singing the tune 
of way wards movement.

Devoid of green,
this place of concrete and plastic
hums in endless reverberation.

As the feral scrounge
and the contented pray,
life echoes on.

An orchestra
emanating from the edge
of the world.

Dispelling the night,
unfurling with the mist,
awakening this city....

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